Christine's father, Major Joseph Haughney, runs one of the earliest versions of the internet, called the Arpanet. Back then, the Arpanet was a military-run project that allowed academics to do research if they had a defense angle.

1981 | Christine's father leaves the military and starts writing about his concerns about the future of the Arpanet/ Internet, how it could be contaminated by "Computer Freaks" and his fears of online harm. When Christine grows up and becomes a journalist, he encourages her for decades to report about the founding fathers of the internet and the early days of the Arpanet.

Christine's mother passes away and her father is diagnosed with dementia. Christine leaves her senior level job at NBC News overseeing the network’s tech investigations to document her father's early recollections of the internet for Inc Magazine. She travels the US collecting more than 100 hours of audio interviews with the founding fathers of the internet.

June 2023 | Inc Magazine debuts the Computer Freaks podcast which becomes the #1 history podcast on Apple and is named by Amazon a "hidden gem."

October 2023 | Christine travels to San Francisco to speak to IEEE about the Computer Freaks podcast.

February 2024 | Christine's father passes away.

March 2024 | CBS This Morning features Christine and her Computer Freaks reporting along with some of the other Internet Founding Fathers. 

April 2024 | Computer Freaks wins the prestigious SABEW award for best podcast/audio in the small division.

May 2024 | Computer Freaks wins the prestigious Deadline Club's New York City Chapter Society of Professional Journalists Award for Radio or Audio Feature Reporting.

Fall 2024 | Apple features the Computer Freaks podcast in its starter history podcast.

Season Two of Computer Freaks airs exploring the dawn of the world wide web, search and ecommerce. Dealbook picks up Christine’s reporting on Marc Andreessen.